plate 7 from ‘Coloured Views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway’, originally published as 6 views plus this scarcer illustration of the locomotive ‘The Northumbrian’, and rolling stock comprising carriages for general passengers, a private carriage in the form of a stage coach, and carriages for cattle, but soon expanded to 13 plates, such was the popularity George Stephenson’s feat of engineering, a reflection of the excitement at the brightening dawn of this new era of transportation, as the second significant railway to open after the Stockton to Darlington line, responding to increasing commercial and industrial demands for the more rapid movement of goods and materials, and being the first to be powered entirely by steam locomotives, apart from the short and steep incline through Wapping Tunnel, between Edge-Hill and Liverpool Docks, where a cable system was deployed,

original hand-coloured aquatint, heightened with gum-arabic, 225 x 260 mm. (8 7/8 x 10 1/4 in), trimmed within the platemark without loss to image or title, but a small loss to upper left corner to just within the border line, laid on a thin card support, slight surface dirt,